Structural highlights
Function[INS_BOVIN] Insulin decreases blood glucose concentration. It increases cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. It accelerates glycolysis, the pentose phosphate cycle, and glycogen synthesis in liver. Publication Abstract from PubMedSynthetic insulin analogues with a long lifetime are current drug targets for the therapy of diabetic patients. The replacement of the interchain disulfide with a diselenide bridge, which is more resistant to reduction and internal bond rotation, can enhance the lifetime of insulin in the presence of the insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) without impairing the hormonal function. The [C7UA ,C7UB ] variant of bovine pancreatic insulin (BPIns) was successfully prepared by using two selenocysteine peptides (i.e., the C7U analogues of A- and B-chains, respectively). In a buffer solution at pH 10 they spontaneously assembled under thermodynamic control to the correct insulin fold. The selenoinsulin (Se-Ins) exhibited a bioactivity comparable to that of BPIns. Interestingly, degradation of Se-Ins with IDE was significantly decelerated (tau1/2 approximately 8 h vs. approximately 1 h for BPIns). The lifetime enhancement could be due to both the intrinsic stability of the diselenide bond and local conformational changes induced by the substitution. Preparation of Selenoinsulin as a Long-Lasting Insulin Analogue.,Arai K, Takei T, Okumura M, Watanabe S, Amagai Y, Asahina Y, Moroder L, Hojo H, Inaba K, Iwaoka M Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2017 May 8;56(20):5522-5526. doi: 10.1002/anie.201701654., Epub 2017 Apr 10. PMID:28394477[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. References
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